Robert W Skidmore

The Drums, the Fog, the Terrible Shadows of War (The Satterfield Saga Book 5)

Members of a divided Satterfield family fight for opposing causes. Jon, the family's hope for the future, drifts southward. When boyhood friends, the sons of General Robert E. Lee, join their father, Jon enlists as a member of Lee's staff. The Satterfield family patriarch, Scottie, begins the war as...

Point of Rocks (The Satterfield Saga Book 4)

Point of Rocks features the Satterfield family of Alexandria, Virginia, as participants in the bitter 1820-1840 competition between the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Goaded by the success of the Erie Canal in New York State, a group of ruthless and adventurou...

Green Eyes, Red Skies, Pale Ales, White Sails (The Satterfield Saga Book 3)

This is the story of an American family in the War of 1812.The Satterfield business empire embroils the family in the political disputes that lead to another war with England. Jason builds a speedy blockade-runner; a British picket ship impresses Toddy and imprisons him in Halifax. Jason and John Jr...

Yankee Doodles in Black Hats

The Satterfield twins, John and James, carry our story through the American Revolution. James conspires with George Mason and George Washington in the days that lead to Washington's selection as Commander in Chief of the rebelling colonial forces. Washington appoints James his political advisor and ...

The Accidental President

Vice President John Walker dies in the arms of his mistress on the same afternoon that a sniper kills President Harrison Tate. A coincidence? Inspector Colin Gifford and Tracey Schultz, the chairman of the task force appointed to investigate, do not think so. A thorough FBI investigation fails to de...

TheDay The Mountain Cried (Unspector Richard Thatcher Series Book 2)

A tropical storm named Jason transforms Chief Deputy Sheriff Conor Gifford’s peaceful October evening into a veritable hell. Jason unleashes hurricane strength winds and horizontal rain on an unprepared Loudoun County. Under the cover of Jason’s wrath, a killer strikes five times in six short hours....

Cluster of Spies

A ranking defector shakes the National Security establishment to its core when he reveals that Washington's most sensitive secrets routinely pass across the Russian President's desk. Fearing that his own organization has been penetrated, the Director of the FBI summons Inspector Richard Thatcher fro...

Pay or Pray: The Odd Threesomes

The murder of a college professor and the kidnapping of the Secretary of Homeland Security lead to a national crisis involving foreign agents and parallel investigations by a FBI Special Agent and a Fairfax Detective with contrasting styles. Robert L Skidmore is the author of twenty-two novels.

The Distracting Splat at the Eiffel

Circles Within Circles

The Distracting Splat at the Eiffel

The Day the Mountain Cried

Circles Within Circles

Keep a Happy Ghost, or None

The Silicon Wizards

The Silicon Wizards